Learn about COVID-19

Reminder: COVID-19 can spread through droplets generated by coughing, sneezing, speaking or singing. To ensure everyone’s health and safety, it is mandatory for patients hospitalized in our facilities to wear a mask.

Our health care teams will give you a procedure mask to keep close at hand. Ask them for a new procedure mask every day. If your mask is visibly dirty, damp, damaged or difficult to breathe through, ask your health care team for a new one.

How to wear a mask

Your mask should cover your face from the bridge of your nose to under your chin. Avoid touching or handling the mask. If you happen to touch your mask, you must wash your hands. 

• The blue side of the mask should face outwards. Shape the metal strip to form against your nose. Make sure that the sides of the mask are flat against your cheeks (do not crisscross the ear loops as this can create gaps).
• Wash your hands after touching your mask. 
• When you cough or sneeze, cover your mouth and nose with a tissue. Put the used tissue in the trash. Wash your hands. If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your elbow or upper sleeve.

You are not required to wear a procedure mask at all times when you are in your room, except in the following situations:

• When within 2 meters of a health care professional.
• When within 2 metres of a roommate and there is no physical barrier, such as curtains, between you (rooms with several beds).
• When leaving your bed to use a shared bathroom (rooms with several beds).
• When being transported for a test or procedure. 

Your mask should cover your face from the bridge of your nose to under your chin. Avoid touching or handling the mask. If you happen to touch your mask, you must wash your hands. 

• The blue side of the mask should face outwards. Shape the metal strip to form against your nose. Make sure that the sides of the mask are flat against your cheeks (do not crisscross the ear loops as this can create gaps).
• Wash your hands after touching your mask. 
• When you cough or sneeze, cover your mouth and nose with a tissue. Put the used tissue in the trash. Wash your hands. If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your elbow or upper sleeve.